A Musical Home Away From Home

By

Katherine Rosman

May 4, 2012 6:50 p.m. ET

NEW ORLEANS—A couple hundred thousand people will have grooved to Florence + the Machine, shimmied to Trombone Shorty and eaten way too many po-boys before the 43rd annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival concludes on Sunday.

Of those who travel to New Orleans for Jazz Fest, nearly 10% are New Yorkers, according Matthew Goldman, a spokesman for the event. And surprise: People here like us!